[SLUG] Network Booting PA-RISC (HP9000 712/60)

[Gerard Blacklock <gbla5989@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi ppl,

My baptism of fire regarding dhcpd, tftpd and network booting has come 
to a stand still....i hope someone who has some expertise can help 
locate the problem! I believe there may be some problem with my dhcp 
configuration, however i have never used dhcp before so i am stabbing in 
the dark when troubleshooting.

I have setup a Redhat 8 machine with dhcp and tfpd rpms installed and 
they are "appearing" to be functioning correctly however when the client 
atempts to boot i have notiiced this problem.

extract from ethereal packet sniffer:

265.294990      0.0.0.0 -> 255.255.255.255 BOOTP Boot Request from 
08:00:09:c8:1d:e2
265.295422       hotdog -> 192.168.1.25 BOOTP Boot Reply
265.634900 192.168.1.25 -> hotdog       TFTP Read Request, File: 
/tftpboot/dists/woody/main/disks-hppa/3.0.23-2003-03-22/lifimage, 
Transfer type: octet
265.635075       hotdog -> ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ARP Who has 192.168.1.25?  
Tell 192.168.1.10
265.635496  HP_c8:1d:e2 -> hotdog       ARP 192.168.1.25 is at 
08:00:09:c8:1d:e2265.635537       hotdog -> 192.168.1.25 ICMP 
Destination unreachable
266.637618 192.168.1.25 -> hotdog       TFTP Read Request, File: 
/tftpboot/dists/woody/main/disks-hppa/3.0.23-2003-03-22/lifimage, 
Transfer type: octet
266.637730       hotdog -> 192.168.1.25 ICMP Destination unreachable
268.639750 192.168.1.25 -> hotdog       TFTP Read Request, File: 
/tftpboot/dists/woody/main/disks-hppa/3.0.23-2003-03-22/lifimage, 
Transfer type: octet
268.639863       hotdog -> 192.168.1.25 ICMP Destination unreachable
272.641761 192.168.1.25 -> hotdog       TFTP Read Request, File: 
/tftpboot/dists/woody/main/disks-hppa/3.0.23-2003-03-22/lifimage, 
Transfer type: octet
272.641878       hotdog -> 192.168.1.25 ICMP Destination unreachable


and so on until the HP9000 gives up and drops back to boot_admin.

this is also the logs from "messages"


Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server 
V3.0pl1
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software 
Consortium.
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: For info, please visit 
http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file.
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file.
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server 
V3.0pl1
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software 
Consortium.
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: For info, please visit 
http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file.
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: Listening on 
LPF/eth0/00:00:e8:d6:d2:74/192.168.1.0/24
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: Sending on   
LPF/eth0/00:00:e8:d6:d2:74/192.168.1.0/24
Apr 14 11:55:39 hotdog dhcpd: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file.
Apr 14 11:55:40 hotdog dhcpd: Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
Apr 14 11:55:40 hotdog dhcpd: Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
Apr 14 11:55:40 hotdog dhcpd: Listening on 
LPF/eth0/00:00:e8:d6:d2:74/192.168.1.0/24
Apr 14 11:55:40 hotdog dhcpd: Sending on   
LPF/eth0/00:00:e8:d6:d2:74/192.168.1.0/24
Apr 14 11:55:40 hotdog dhcpd: Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
Apr 14 11:55:40 hotdog dhcpd: dhcpd startup succeeded
Apr 14 11:55:51 hotdog dhcpd: BOOTREQUEST from 08:00:09:c8:1d:e2 via eth0
Apr 14 11:55:51 hotdog dhcpd: BOOTREPLY for 192.168.1.25 to parisc 
(08:00:09:c8:1d:e2) via eth0
Apr 14 11:56:14 hotdog dhcpd: BOOTREQUEST from 08:00:09:c8:1d:e2 via eth0
Apr 14 11:56:14 hotdog dhcpd: BOOTREPLY for 192.168.1.25 to parisc 
(08:00:09:c8:1d:e2) via eth0
Apr 14 11:56:22 hotdog kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode


and my dhcp.conf


### Example dhcpd.conf file for a Class C subnet 192.168.196.0
###


ddns-update-style ad-hoc;

allow booting;
allow bootp;


default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
# This will tell the box its hostname while booting:
use-host-decl-names on;

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
   range dynamic-bootp 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.255;
   option routers 192.168.1.4;
   option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
   option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
   option domain-name-servers 129.78.64.1;
   allow unknown-clients;
   }


host parisc {
   hardware ethernet 08:00:09:C8:1D:E2;
   fixed-address 192.168.1.25;
   filename 
"/tftpboot/dists/woody/main/disks-hppa/3.0.23-2003-03-22/lifimage";
#    option root-path "/exports/pariscroot";
   allow unknown-clients;
   }

Hope someone can shed some light and/or point me in the right direction.
If more info is required let me know!

thanks

gerard